Getting mod rewrite to work - please help

[manarak]

Hi all, I have the following .htaccess file:

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([^.]+)\.mydomain.com
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /var/www/clients/client2/web7/web/_DEV/virtual_subdom.php?user=%1
</IfModule>

I dropped it into /web, and now I expect every URL in the format www.mydomain.com/xyz to be redirected to

/var/www/clients/client2/web7/web/_DEV/virtual_subdom.php?user=xyz

(as far as no xyz directory exists in /web)

but it doesn't work, I get the ISPC3 404 page.


then I tried to modify the apache directives in the website options in ISPC3.

These are my current settings:

<LocationMatch "/">
    SecRuleRemoveById 970009,950006,970003
</LocationMatch>
<LocationMatch "/index.php">
    SecRuleRemoveById 950911,950001,950001,950013
</LocationMatch>
<Directory /var/www/clients/client2/web7>
Options All
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
php_admin_value safe_mode 0
php_admin_value register_globals 0
php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/clients/client2/web7"
</Directory>

I added the following 4 lines to try to get mod rewrite to work, but it didn't help:
Options All
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

Can someone please help me?
I am totally lost.

[till]

1) Where is the .htaccess file? is it var/www/clients/client2/web7/web/.htaccess ?

2) The rwrite conditions are wrong, you missed to mask the dots of the tld. It has to be:

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.mydomain\.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ([^.]+)\.mydomain\.com

3) The rewrite path seems to be wrong, try:

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ _DEV/virtual_subdom.php?user=%1

or

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /_DEV/virtual_subdom.php?user=%1

4) Remove the lines:

Options All
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

from the apache directives field.

[manarak]

Thank you Till, it is working now!